Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-07-14
Thursday, July "a, 1887.
DEFYING ROME.

On Sunday evening last there was
held In New York City what wal
termed an "anti-poverty meeting"
under the auspices Of the George-Mo-
Glynn faction, but which was In re-
ality an anti-pspal demonstration on
the part Of McGlynn's friends, de-
nouncing the action Of the pope in ex.
communicating :McGlynn. The au.
dience wa Of the largest, completely
filling the Academy of Music and
OVERLOOKING into Irving Hall.
Presuming that the audience were
all good Catholics, and there Ia no
reaso to doubt II. the denunciations
of the Holy Father. by the speakers,
which they listened to aud tactily &c.
quiesced In, would seem to mark an
era Of decadence ofthe temporal power
of the church In America at least.
Such an expression of opinion as the
following from Chairman Cahan Of
the meeting Is decidedly un-Roman as
the code used to exist:
We are here tonight to tell Rome
that In the matters political not one
jot Of our allegiance is rendered to any
power or poten tate, but in its entirety
is given.to the..lsws and constitution Of
the United States. [Cheers.1 All Of
you went to your several churches
this morning. In not one church did
anyone care to stand up and read the
decree Of Michael Augustine. Corrigan.
Kisses and cat cslls.l When the
church authorities attack and dspose
q holy man, whose very s~hoe-lacelets
they are unworthy 70 unite, they 20 to
the daily press to promulgate their
edicts. They do not publish them
from the Catholic pulpits.
DR.. McGlynn, the hero of the eve
ming, was received with tumultuous
applause. and the singing Of "Msrch-
ing to freedom" by one thousand
voices a. he entered the hall. He too
fearlessly lock horns with the head OF
the church on the subject Of temporal
power, and we are told his speech was
at intervals interrupted by uncon.
trolled demonstrations of sppropba-
tion. A short extract will suffice to
show the general drift O. 1t. As fol.
lows:
Our God is a merciful as well as q
wise one. He will never condemn
any being who follows the dictates Of
conscience. even be that conscience
an erring one. In obeying 1t he is for.
ever obeying the will of God. As It is
dogma Of the Catholic faith, and &C.
cording to all Christian philosophy
and teaching, the man who goes
against his conscience sins against the
Holy Ghost. and despite the power of
any authority even the pope, ifa man
does or says anything in obedience to
that power, IL in SO doing he goes
against his conscience, he sins. Even
II q high Roman tribunal summons q
man before them for teaching the
truth which he knows to exist. and II
that tribunal should condemn his
doctrines without giving them trial,
and condem him to retract them, 1t is
his duty before God to refuse to do 80
(cheers) and II II twas in its power, a.
mt one time IL was. but, thank God no
longer is, to imprison and martyr the
truth In the persons Of those who have
read Gods word In nature before
they have been able to see 1t, should
they summon him and command him
TO retract underline penalty Of impris-
onmeDt or martyrdom, 1t is his duty
10 resist, and even be burned alive ct
the stake rather than commit the un.
pardonable SIN against the Holy
Ghost. of declaring what his consci.
ence believed 10 be false"
Ifyou wan to see true devotion to the
Catholic church 20 where 1t lie in a
Minority and with little power, q in
Ireland and Germany. Ireassert that
know q German-American bishop,
an intimate friend of Cardinal Glib
bons, who said that the Roman au'
thorities wanted TO have q nuncio al
the court Of King Grover the First.